Mechanical toy frog



(MedeL) S. E. CLARK. MECHANICAL TOY .FROG. No. 375,867. Patented Jan. 8, 1888.

WTTNESSES:

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

sAMUEL' E. cLAEK, oE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

MECHANICAL TOY FROG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 375,867, dated January 3, 1888.

Application filed May 14, 1887. Serial No. 238,177. (Modem 1'0 aZZ whom/it may concern.-

Be it known that 'I, SAMUEL E. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county ofPhiladelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Mechanical Toy Frog, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a mechanical toy of the order of a frog, which when operated,

' produces a creaking sound.

Figure 1 represents alongitudinal section of a toy frog embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents ashorizontal section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

Referring to the drawings, A represents two jaws,which are pivoted together and extended rearward of the pivot forming handles B, said jaws and handles forming the body of the toy, simulating a frog.

0 represents a spring which is connected with one jaw and bears against the handle of the otherjaw, or may be connected with both jaws, whereby said jaws are held in closed position, said spring having an indentation, a, in the face thereof. Within the jaws isa plate, D, which has ears b,by which the plate is hung or secured to one of the jaws, said plate constituting the tongue of the frog, and in praco tice is properly colored. It will be seen that by working the toy or alternately pressing together and releasing thehandles B the jaws A are opened and closed and the spring is bent, whereby, owing to the indentation a, creaking sounds are produced. When the handles are let go, the spring restores the parts to their normal position,closing the month of the frog.

Having thus described myinvention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. Jaws pivoted togetherand extended beyond thepivot, forming handles,in combination with a spring for closing thejaws, having an indentation, said parts being combined to form a mechanical toy, substantially as described.

2. Thejaws A, with handles B, the tongueplate D, between the jaws, and the closingspring 0, connected with thejaws and having an indentation in its face, all combined and 50 operating substantially. as described. W

S. E. CLARK.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WrEDEEsHEIM, J As. F. KELLY. 

